As Per Rick's Request...

As I expressed earlier, I think that using a blog in a theatre class could be useful, but apparently others don't seem to agree with me. I originally thought that until I took Amy Jensen's class on incorporating technology within a theatre classroom. She showed me how creating a classroom blog can help enhance a student's learning about theatre and the different aspects of theatre. I would like to create a classroom blog that sort of acts like a journal for the students. I think that theatre and acting relies heavily on self-evaluation and looking and expressing inner thoughts and realization. Thus, while it might be better for the students to have their own personal journal because of reasons of privacy, I also think that students can and should be able to learn from one another and each other's own experiences and I think that that could be achieved through having a collaborative blog. Also, it's a great way to get the students to find different resources from the internet about theatre and share them with the rest of the class. For example, say that you're doing a unit on lighting and lighting design. An assignment that you could do would be to have the students find at least one resource from the internet about lighting or pictures from really neat design from a play they like and post them on the classroom blog so that everyone else can see them. Of course one might say that they might not look at each other's assignments and learn from each other. That's when you makes sure that they comment on at least 3 or 4 other assignments. Those are just some ideas that I have :)